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Thumb_aragona__dave_twitter David Aragona , Saratoga , 08/26/2018 , Race 2 - DRF Live Posted : Aug 26, 2018, 12:54 PM

Blahnik is an intriguing alternative to the favorites as she makes her turf debut in Saratoga's 2nd race

Miss Rombauer (8) figures to go off as the favorite for Chad Brown, as her stablemate Black Dynamite is stuck on the also-eligible list. There’s plenty to like about this daughter of Scat Daddy. She sold for a hefty $375,000 off an impressive 10 2/5-second workout at the Fasig-Tipton sale. She gets plenty of turf pedigree from her sire, and she’s certainly bred to be a quality filly on the dam’s side. Her dam is a full sister to both Kauai Katie and Winding Way. The former was more of a dirt sprinter, whereas the latter was a turf and synthetic specialist, so she should possess the versatility to run well here. I’m not against her, but these runners are often overbet. There are a few horses with experience to consider. Speedy Solution (4) ran well in her debut on turf, stalking a moderate pace before getting run down in the late stages.

I’m using these two, but the one I want to bet at a better price is BLAHNIK (1).

Some may be totally turned off by this filly’s debut, in which she showed absolutely nothing after breaking slowly. That effort was shockingly incongruous with the tote support that she received, as she went off as one of Todd Pletcher’s shortest-priced first-time starters of the meet. It’s a possibility that she just can’t run at all, but I have a suspicion that her connections may have misjudged her by running on the dirt the first time out. While she is a daughter of mediocre turf sire Bernardini, there is plenty of turf pedigree in her female family. Her dam never raced, but she is out of a mare who was strictly a turf horse, winning three times on that surface before placing in stakes company. Looking deeper into this female family, her third dam, Anzille, is a half-sister to Urban Sea, the great European mare who produced Galileo, Sea The Stars, and My Typhoon. She displayed a turfy way of moving in her impressive OBS sale workout back in March, so I think this may be the right spot. Furthermore, I was pleased to see that she broke sharply in her gate drill on Aug. 20.

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